Data Visualizations of the Great War, 1914-1918

In this project I propose to use selected data visualization apps, such as Visualizing.org (www.visualizing.org/), Google chart tools (developers.google.com/chart/) and Tableau Public (public.tableau.com/ , to work with selected material costs and casualty data, and in particular to put that data in different relational contexts: for example, casualties in proportion to men mobilized, in proportion to prewar population, in proportion to prewar male population, etc.

Another digital history tool that I will use to help students better view the overall progress of the war on the Western Front is an ArcGis Online (www.arcgis.com/home/index.html) story map.

For example, some of the statistics that I will be working with include:
o Civilian and military casualty figures (These are still subject to widespread disagreement.) for the major combatant countries: U.S., France, United Kingdom, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Russia, Ottoman Empire
o Deaths in battle and deaths from non-battle illness and disease
o Casualties outside of the Western and Eastern fronts in Europe
o Casualties in proportion to the country's prewar population, the prewar male population, and the number of men mobilized
I'll also be looking at some other statistics:
o Poison gas use
o Tons of shells fired/produced
o Military equipment produced
o Financial costs of the war